Deborah Lippman is offering a limited edition trio of nail colors for the Holiday 2013 season. The set is called Space Oddity, and it includes three layerable shades titled When Lightning Strikes (“celestial silver”), Planet Rock (“smoky lavender”), and Baby I’m a Star (“galactic rose gold”).
Continue reading “Covet: Deborah Lippmann Space Oddity Nail Color Trio”
Compagnie de Provence specializes in liquid and solid soaps inspired by traditional Marseille soap-making recipes; I’m quite partial to the liquid formula. And this limited edition version, which “celebrates Marseille-Provence as the 2013 cultural capital of Europe” and is offered in a “black silkscreened glass bottle, which depicts iconic images of the region,” is something I’d want to own just for the packaging, even if I didn’t like the actual product so much. The bottle is designed by Marseille artist Stephan Muntaner, who has worked before with Compagnie de Provence. “From Marseille’s harbour to Arles amphitheater, from Cézanne to Van Gogh, from the sardine to the cicadas, rediscover Provence in a new light,” reads the promotional text.
More information at Compagnie de Provence and B-Glowing.
Sorting through a few press releases in my e-mail in-box, I was happy to read this announcement (and to see these lovely images):
“This October, L’OCCITANE will introduce a colorful Limited-Edition Shea Butter Collection, Shea Flowers of Love. The series adds a touch of cheer to winter by combining three unique scents (Rose Tenderness, Subtle Violet and Passionate Jasmine) with their signature ingredient, Shea Butter.”
Each scent will be available in a travel-size hand cream ($12), a body cream ($22), and a lip balm ($12). Since rose and violet are my two favorite fragrance notes, and I’m a longtime fan of L’Occitane’s shea butter products, I’ll be tempted to scoop up a few of these limited edition items.
Information and images via L’Occitane.
When the vintage-inspired Besame makeup line was launched, back in 2005, there was a lot of online chatter about its richly pigmented, glamorously packaged lipsticks. We realized that these lipsticks were tiny, but mighty, and we all admired their vivid, feminine colors. No minimalist nudes here!
The one problem was the difficulty of sampling the colors before purchasing a lipstick. Since Besame has never been distributed widely, it was hard to see the products in person. (Henri Bendel carried Besame for a brief time; I bought a Merlot lipstick. Then they dropped the line.)
At long last, Besame is selling samples of the lipsticks, in a particularly clever way. The new lipstick samplers look like a fancy matchbooks, and inside each one, six cardboard “matches” are tipped with small amounts of lipstick. Each sampler includes two colors to try, with three samples of each color. Each sample is enough for three uses.
Seven color pairs are offered. Which would you choose?
I recently attended the Elements Showcase, a biannual trade fair for “niche” fragrance houses and a few select beauty lines, and between rounds of smelling perfumes, perfumes, a few scented candles, and more perfumes, I sat down for a mini-manicure at the Tenoverten table. I wrote about Tenoverten (“ten over ten”) and the brand’s line of polish last year (see here), and this time around I was able to sample a new shade: Wall Street.
I was so entranced by this polish that I forgot to take a photo of the bottle, and when I got home I realized that the polish wasn’t going to show up well in photographs. Well, I tried. Here’s what I got…
Continue reading “Covet: tenoverten Wall Street Nail Polish”
TINSEL CREATION 